I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 255 - 214: Compressing the Vision_1

Chapter 255: Chapter 214: Compressing the Vision_1

The Dusk mercenaries had come to another world to carry out missions for the sake of profit and future development, not to deliberately generate conflict with the natives. While some Dusk hunters were quite nasty, they did not represent the whole group, and some of the natives were also quite powerful.

Mercenaries who acted rashly often ended up in accidents.

Not to mention the addition of a Proxy Agent. Originally, after they arrived in the vicinity, they planned to scope out the situation but found that the fortress had fallen into a state of paralysis. Although there was another layer of isolation barriers, its main function was to block signals.

They could easily circumvent it and sneak in. After entering, they became even more certain of the fortress’s status—an excellent opportunity indeed. Yet, no one expected that the place would suddenly resume normal operations...

Had they known this, they would have been better off fleeing earlier and buying some high-tech gadgets, acting as temporary black marketeers. Dusk didn’t prohibit this—the only requirement was money. Although money was fastest to obtain by looting, which Dusk mercenaries weren’t talented at?

It was not hard for them to earn money the regular way.

"Who are those people?" Chang Wenhua asked, watching the video in the monitor. Before Zheng Yichen could answer, his communicator rang again. He frowned and, after answering, he snorted, "Someone’s getting restless again."

"Oh? Are they causing a disturbance?"

"Hmph, they want to escape!"

"You could let those Dusk mercenaries get involved in this. They share the same stance as I do—we’re all here to solve some problems. However, I’m not familiar with them and can’t guarantee they won’t do other things while resolving the issues."

"..." Chang Wenhua twitched at the corner of his eyes, so what exactly are you guys? "No need... Forget it, I’ll have someone talk to them."

When the Dusk mercenaries heard that there were Boundary Breakers trying to flee, they were immediately pumped up. They would not intervene directly with matters inside the fortress, but those who escaped were a different story: "Leave this to us; later, we will exchange their heads for the bounty!"

"Ahem, for rewards." The person in charge of negotiations said with a subtle expression: "Satellite positioning can help you lock onto their location, but if they hide where the satellite can’t monitor, then it’s up to you."

When the Dusk mercenaries left the fortress, they saw some vehicles departing in the distance, clearly the armed forces from within the fortress.

"We need to speed up as well."

Killing Boundary Breakers brought rewards. After resolving one, you might not get merit points immediately, but they would accumulate, and after taking down another, you would get them.

So to them, Boundary Breakers were like moving bags of bounty, not to be missed if possible. They seemed even more eager than the pursuit team.

The surveillance personnel showed a perplexed look. What were these people up to?

In the lab, Zheng Yichen looked at the heads with tubes inserted and couldn’t help asking: "Isn’t this technology illegal in this world?"

"Using it on living people is definitely illegal, but it’s fine on the deceased. When this technology first emerged, it caused a serious blow to many espionage agencies... "

Chiang Wei said, looking at the heads: "We’ve extracted quite a lot of information."

Chiang Wei was not concerned about those who escaped. What interested her were the details contained within the brains of these bodies. After extracting the information, her tense mood relaxed—there was a problem, and it wasn’t her, but the Eye of Time and Space.

"This is unbelievable." Chang Wenhua, looking at the information displayed on the computer, had his world view challenged. The existence of the Eye of Time and Space affirmed the feasibility of traveling to other worlds. Anomalies could confirm the existence of other worlds, but it was a one-way trip.

If the Eye of Time and Space could be developed properly, it would be easy to travel to other worlds, whether to obtain resources or explore other valuable technologies.

But according to the information here, their world was already prey, targeted by a more powerful world. Once the development of the Eye of Time and Space was complete, the foundations of their world would be shattered, and they would be incorporated into another Great World.

This part of the information was consistent; the rest consisted of various experiences of Boundary Breakers. They had ventured through many worlds, and high-tech worlds were not absent. Projects like the Eye of Time and Space were a common strategy against high-tech worlds.

Just plant a seed, and if the officials of that world had ambitious development plans, they would push that project vigorously. Once the Eye of Time and Space was completed, everything would be set in stone, beyond the point of change.

At that point, the resulting shockwave would first wipe out those who could not withstand it, and the surviving remnants would be subsumed into the Great World, a mere afterthought. Revenge?

First, you’d need to find your enemy, and even if you could seek revenge afterward, what then? You’d already be part of the Great World, and the living would just have to continue their lives, merely in a different place. Time would erase the traces of the past.

"Damn it—" Chang Wenhua sweated after going through the information, realizing that they thought they were the hunters, but in the grander scale of the universe, they were merely prey.

"I actually find this machine quite fascinating." Zheng Yichen rubbed his chin while looking at the information. The data was incomplete, probably owing to the brains not being preserved well enough.

"It’s like a ’brain in a vat’ technology; what we observe are the scans of information inside the brain, but the actual situation is like this." Chiang Wei manipulated the control console, and a projection screen appeared, displaying a small white room on it.